Eric Carle, the writer and artists of many children's books, was our inspiration for this project. He uses the technique of painting the background first. After that, he cuts out the characters that he is going to use by hand. It was very interesting to see the patience and exactness that has to create each of his books and paintings. For our project, we were to create a page from a book, by creating a background and a character as Eric Carle would. For my background I mixed numerous colors together and used a sponge to get a different texture, one that kind of represented a desert. Once I was finished with the background, I cut out my kangaroo, sun, trees, and hills with an exacto knife. At the end, I glued the characters to the background and added my phrase for my pictures-"The lonely purple kangaroo roamed through the desert."
As an extension project, I would stick with the same idea but let the students create a whole book! I would have the pages be smaller and have the students think of the theme and a story that they would want to write. This was a really fun process to go through making this just one page, so I think that students would have a great time getting to create their own book that they would be able to take home.
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